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FIRST, YES...it's WAY TOO EARLY to take a victory lap on this, and YES...in addition to *****ALLEGEDLY***** entering the same realm of dementia as his monstrous daddy Fred (if you believe Trump's niece Mary), he gets MORE dangerous as his orders are not obeyed.https://www.rawstory.com/white-house-2674305077/
The White House is publicly projecting confidence that President Donald Trump can weather whatever storms come out in the Jeffrey Epstein files, but a new report reveals an apparent fear his second term could be swamped by a Category 5 scandal.
The president and his top lieutenants failed to persuade congressional Republicans to back off from the Epstein case, and Trump publicly signaled his support for a vote to compel his Department of Justice to release investigative files on his sex trafficking network. The Washington Post provided new reporting on the behind-the-scenes strategizing for his U-turn.
"It marks not only a moment of personal frustration for Trump, according to advisers, but has raised alarms among some Republican operatives about the partys strength moving into the midterms," the Post reported. "Trumps base in recent weeks has divided over a host of issues, including the United States relationship with Israel, antisemitism in the GOP, extending immigration visas to Chinese students and farmworkers, and whether Trump has been too focused on foreign policy issues at the expense of providing economic relief and addressing other domestic issues."
Trump personally tried to pressure individual GOP lawmakers to oppose a floor vote on the files, according to two sources, but House Republicans instead defied his orders on an issue that advisers say exasperated him.
lindysalsagal
(22,793 posts)Miles Archer
(20,902 posts)I posted a couple of threads here, and assume other DUers have too.
He can say all he wants about his stupid "WEAVE" (stream-of-consciousness rambling that he believes is all cohesive and coherent).
None of us can "armchair quarterback" a diagnosis of him, even if we are medical professionals (I am not), BUT...like most people, I have had people in my orbit with dementia, and it's not a stretch to say he "may be" following in his father's footsteps (who was stricken with it on a major scale at HIS AGE, 79).
lindysalsagal
(22,793 posts)Anyone in the white house knows it already.
We need to return to the old procedures where experts surround potus and the senate. Vance wouldn't really need to know how to govern: He'd just need to choose good advisors. Hopefully, the project 2025 droolers have already proven their tactics aren't supportable.
Miles Archer
(20,902 posts)Trump, 79, Has Dementia Just Like His Dad: Trumps Niece
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-dementia-just-dad-192646141.html
In a searing interview on The Daily Beast Podcast, the daughter of Donald Trumps late older brother, Fred Trump Jr., laid out the clearest case shes ever made that the president is exhibiting the same signs she once saw in his father, Fred Trump Sr., who had Alzheimers for a very, very long time.
The elder Trump was diagnosed with mild senile dementia in 1991. His physician cited symptoms of obvious memory decline in recent years and significant memory impairment. He was later hospitalized with pneumonia and died at age 93 on June 25, 1999.
The conversation began when the Daily Beasts Chief Content Officer Joanna Coles pressed Mary on the family history of dementiaMarys grandfather and grandmother both had it. Mary explained that she is a clinical psychologist, not a neuropsychologist, but she said she knows enough to assess certain kinds of neurological disorders.
There are times I look at him and I see my grandfather, Mary said. I see that same look of confusion. I see that he does not always seem to be oriented to time and place. His short-term memory seems to be deteriorating. Trumps lifelong impulse-control problems, she added, are also deteriorating as well.
lindysalsagal
(22,793 posts)The news can't do anything but report what other experts say, or they appear to be working politically.